Efekti igranja nasilnih video-igrica na decu i mlade

Abstract

Violent video games, as a modern digital media, have attracted increasing attention of children and adolescents in recent decades, causing many detrimental consequences, most notably aggressive behavior. Therefore, the goals of the paper are: presentation of research findings that testify to the influence of playing violent video games on aggressive cognition, aggressive feelings, physiological arousal, desensitization to violent scenes, as processes that play a significant role in the expression of aggressive behavior; review of research indicating significant effects of playing violent video games on aggressive behavior; summarizing and displaying the factors that mediate and moderate the link between violent video game play and aggressive behavior. Based on the findings of meta-analytic, longitudinal, experimental and correlational studies, it is clear that playing violent video games is positively related to aggressive behavior and underlying processes.